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From: Damien CARBONNE <damien.carbonne@dassault-aviation.fr>
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Subject: Re: Eliminating copying in Gnat
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:57:08 +0100
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Victor Porton wrote:

> Is it possible to cause Gnat to not do unnecessary copying
> when calling this fynction?
>
> function Pass(X: T) return T is
>   pragma Inline(Pass);
> begin
>   return X;
> end;

I'm not completely sure about it, but I would not put the "pragma
Inline" at this place, but rather in the spec file (.ads).

package XXX is
   function Pass(X:T) return T;
   pragma Inline(Pass);
end XXX;